The Polar Bear Swim’s an annual event here in Vancouver so it’s a big.  It happens every New Years Day and hundreds turn up to English Bay to jump into the water.  Why we do it?  Don’t ask me.  Maybe it’s just the thrill of spending your first day of a new year getting chilled to the bone by freezing cold water.  It’s refreshing, it’s different, it’s crazy.

I didn’t do it.  Every year I’m totally revved up to do it, but something always happens preventing me from doing it.  This year, I ALMOST went.  But then some work got in the way and I ended up being too tired and stressed to go.  I know it sounds like a lame excuse, but I also didn’t want to risk getting sick since I had a work trip coming up.  So, I ended up just going to English Bay and watched my friends and a number of other people jump into the freezing cold water.